(Cover photo: Ted’s chicks have arrived. Chickens are highly valued in Tanzania for meat and eggs. Ted will be offering training in chicken farming this coming dry season.) It has been a fun month for Ted and Kim as they have been receiving visitors for agricultural training. Due to Covid-19...
They were living the “American Dream.” He had been a software engineer for 17 years. She had a degree in communications, and after working a few years, became a stay-at-home mom. They had four kids ages 5-11 when they began to sense God had something different in store for their lives....
In Mbeya, Tanzania, GMI missionary Gabriel Wilson took advantage of his time outside of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the coronavirus pandemic working with ten young church leaders in the area of missions. During this training spanning parts of two weeks, Gabriel shared God’s heart for missions,...
Jeremy Clark, GMI Executive Director, who was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the interview, was able to chat with Ted Rabenold in Tanzania and Cory Hodgson in Paraguay—three people on three continents! Enjoy watching this video and hearing how COVID-19 is affecting Tanzania and Paraguay, as...
Jeremy Clark, GMI Executive Director, who was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the interview, was able to chat with Gabriel and Hannah Wilson who were in Iringa, Tanzania, and Talo Vergara, who was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It is amazing how today’s technology allows us to do interviews online with...
Ted with the District Commissioner and others On January 16, there was a great service at the District Commissioner’s office where six handicapped bicycles were gifted to local individuals in the Rukwa Valley of Tanzania. The District Commissioner can be seen in the photo to the left wearing the...
Stefanie Sherman, daughter of GMI missionaries Steve and Barb Sherman, started her travels for the summer making ministry videos for GMI missionaries by visiting all the missionaries in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. She took lots of video footage of their ministries and family life–enough for...
GMI missionaries Ted and Kim Rabenold have been faithful, dedicated servants of God working in the field of Tanzania for many years despite struggles and challenges that have come their way. Of course, they have had great joy and victory along the way, too, and they want to share their lives with...
MIKE AND LYNN CARAWAY’S LETTER Dear Family and Friends, We are so grateful for the wonderful opportunities we have had to be part of GMI’s Tanzania missionary team over the past 15 years. Perhaps our lives have been impacted even more so than the lives of the people we’ve been privileged to...
GMI missionary Ted Rabenold informs us that there has been a cholera outbreak in Tanzania in a village where he had some of his men working. Here is a quote from Ted: “Due to a Rukwa valley Cholera outbreak in which hundreds have been infected the TZ government has set up an emergency...
Ted and Kim Rabenold have been serving in Tanzania since 1991. All three of the Rabenolds’ adult children—Colton, Sierra and Savannah—grew up in Tanzania. They learned to speak Swahili and settled in the remote southwest Rukwa region where they began pioneering work. The ministry is aimed at...
